Laurence Fox's triumph against the mob

A small victory for common sense was chalked up this morning when actors’ union Equity apologised for denouncing the anti-woke actor Laurence Fox. After Fox’s appearance on Question Time in January – in which he scandalously suggested that maybe Britain isn’t a rotten, racist country that had driven out the wonderful Meghan Markle – the Twitter account of Equity’s minority ethnic members committee denounced him as a ‘disgrace to our industry’.

The tweets were later deleted, and Equity has now said they were a ‘mistake’, clarifying that it had never intended to suggest that Fox ‘should be denied the ability to work’ over his opinions. That an actors union even had to clarify this is a neat reminder of how deep woke intolerance runs in the creative industries. Just peruse the responses to Equity’s statement on Twitter and you’ll see what I mean. All the members of Equity’s minority ethnic members committee – since renamed the race equality committee for some reason – have also resigned in protest.